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Georges St. Pierre’s next title defence will take place at UFC 111 in New Jersey and not at a Montreal or Las Vegas event as some thought it might. UFC commentator Mike Goldberg gave the fixture away at a Q&A session for fans in Memphis earlier today, ahead of tomorrow night’s UFC 107 event.Hardy was actually the fighter handling today’s Q &...

Tyson Griffin has withdrawn from the UFC 108 card with an undisclosed injury that his manager says is not long-term serious, but enough to prevent him training for and competing in the January 2nd event. Griffin’s manager, Tom Call, gave the lowdown to MMA Weekly."Tyson sustained an injury that won’t allow him to prepare. It’s not serious. We...

Wanderlei Silva has signed a bout agreement for a fight with Michael Bisping at UFC 110 in Syndey, Australia. Fighters Only was given exclusive access to film Silva signing the documents, which can be viewed here on our YouTube channel.“Now it is not possible any more for people to say I am afraid of him, this is the proof that I am not afrai of him. This is...

Matt Hughes says he will be fighting Renzo Gracie on April 10th in a UFC event to be staged in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The news came via a post in his personal blog.“I didn’t know if I could say anything about my next fight, but I see that Dana has let the cat out of the bag. So I can tell you what I know, on April 10th I will be fighting Renzo Gracie...

Dana White and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson are talking again but the conversations are not entirely pleasant, according to the UFC president. He told media at yesterday’s UFC 107 press conference that he and the former light-heavyweight champion exchanged words as recently as last week.“Me and Rampage had a very unpleasant 45 minute conversation...

Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) heavyweight champion Bobby Lashley has signed a multi-year agreement with Strikeforce, the organisation has confirmed. Lashley (4-0) will  make his debut on Saturday, January 30.“I’m looking forward to fighting for Strikeforce and challenging myself by taking on some of the top heavyweights in MMA,”...

Matt Hamill has proved gracious in the defeat-come-victory he earned at UFC 106. Stuck under Jon Jones and taking a fierce hammering, Hamill looked moments away from losing by referee stoppage before Jones threw some illegal elbows and managed to get himself disqualified, thereby handing Hammil the W.But Hamill is not crowing about the win. Far from it. Writing in...

“I can’t let anyone judge me or treat me like a piece of shit, and he did,” said UFC heavyweight Cheick Kongo in the course of explaining the genuine animosity between himself and Frank Mir to today’s pre-fight press conference.Mir has been talking - a lot - about Kong in the build-up to this fight and in particular has focused on what he sees...

Paulo Filho was officialised as GFTeam fighter on December 1st 2009, according to manager Leonardo Cabral. “The Bullet” started the camp training on the following day for his next appointment at Bitetti Combat where he fights Tatsuhiko Nishizaka on Saturday.“Surely he won’t be at the level we plan for his career by next Saturday, but everybody...

UFC president Dana White says Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson will be fighting for the organisation early 2010. Jackson was supposed to fight Rashad Evans at UFC 107 this weekend, but withdrew from the card to take a role in The A Team movie, which is currently being filmed. Asked at today‘s press conference if he was upset that Rampage was not on the...